Aww thanks everybody for all of your kind words, and I really mean it that I feel quite a bit better (for now anyway) about leaving him alone tomorrow. I definitely will keep you posted as to how it goes.

That is SO funny, the Moose Lodge. Actually that is the kind of crate I really wanted to get, but we can't find it around here. We can get that kind in a medium size (which is what we already have), but this one is the wire mesh kind. I don't have time tonight to take pictures & post them, but maybe tomorrow after *yikes* work.

(That *yikes* is because that will mean my first day will be over already *yikes*!)